Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 251, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 February 1931 — Page 3

FEB. 27, 1931

RUSSIAN LABOR IS SUPREME IN ALL QUESTIONS Simplest, Most Complicated Problems Are Decided by Workers. Thu l the fifth of Kucene t/ron*' oerie* ot irtiele* aatnraarlzint bis three rears in the So-let Union. BY EUGENE LYONS United Press Staff Correspondent MOSCOW, Feb. 27.—Ascendancy of the manual laborer In the new Soviet civilization Is not an abstract thing, not empty flattery of the new master of the national household It is a reality affecting everything from the simplest matters of food and shelter to the most complex questions of arts, ideals and morals. lie receives the largest rations and when there is not enough of any item to go round, he is the first to be provisioned. The same applies to new housing, school and hospital facilities, places in the theaters, clubs, sanatoria. Workers Feared Everywhere The vast official apparatus, except in its topmost reaches, quakes in all its limbs at the approach of a factory "brigade.” The newspapers devote pages regularly to letters from factory workers, even reproducing the halfliterate signatures. The grimy faces of Ivanov, factory worker, and Comrade Ivanova, woman worker, decorate the pages of leading magazines just as those of 'society" fill select American magazines. If you have written a play, a scenario, a poem and are politically wise you will read it before a workers’ meeting somewhere. Its resolution of approval, if you are lucky enough to elicit one, is as good as a command to producers and publishers. In the courts of revolutionary justice the fact that a man is a worker is his best defense. Patronage Is Given Government institutions, theaters. Red army units, newspapers are graciously taken under the '‘patronage” of some factory as a form of direct proletarian supervision. Films are exhibited to some group of workers before being released to the general public. The same is done with grand opera, ballets, novels, everything which the workers have the right—though they as yet lack the capacity—to judge. The worker paVs a heavy price

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for the new status, as I shall point out in subsequent articles. He is a soldier in the ranks of his class, without personal rights, subject to mobilization for heavy and unwelcome tasks in distant places. But the sense of superiority, of having come into his kingdom, is real compensation and the ruling communist party never loses an

Question for discussion is: “Resolved, That social fraternities and sororities should be abolished from the campuses of colleges and universities of America.” Those representing Indiana

opportunity to underline it. The tragedy of the situation—one which time may cure—is that the new ruler is not yet ripened to exercise the stupendous control which has fallen into his hands. For the time being his hands do more suppressing than guiding in the doman of creative thought. Political considerations are necessarily paramount in the pres-

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Centval are) Miss Miller, Westchester, O.; Miss Walker, Montpelier; Miss Kemper, Morristown, negative. Miss Dalton, Muncie; Miss Arford, 1397 Russell avenue, Indianapolis, and Miss Osgood, Milford, 111., affirmative.

ent stage of Soviet development. They a ceaseless encouragement and fortification of the workers’ sense of importance and selfconfidence. The Soviet leaders achieve this by intrusting everything, great and small alike, to the control of manual laborers. Next: Working class lifted to power in Russia.

HOUSE ADOPTS REPORT KILLING TEXT BOOK BILL People Have Been ‘Robbed,’ Measure’s Supporter Declares. Although a desperate effort was made by the authors of the free text book bill to save it from death in the house today, that body adopted the report of the education committee recommending postponement by a vote of 56-36. It was pointed out in debate that one of the two measures, the tobacco tax, which was to have paid for the books, was killed, while the other, the malt tax bill was amended to turn the proceeds into the state general fund. Representative Fred Galloway • Dem., Marion), and William JT Black (Dem.. Madison), who introduced the bills, declared if they had not been tampered with free texts could have been given to every school child in Indiana. They said that $1,000,000 additional could have been turned into the general fund. • “The people have been ‘robbed’ by being forced to buy books every year at a cost one and one-half times that in other states,” Black declared.

METZGER TO CONTROL C. M. TANARUS, C. ENROLLMENT Service Club Member to Be in Charge of Marion County, Marion county enrollment for citizens’ military training camps this year will be in charge of Norman Metzger, member of the Indianapolis Service Club, Major W, W. Carr, adjutant general of the Eighty-fourth division, is vicechairman, and M. M. Andrews, 1930 chairman, is consultant. The county quota of 105 is to be raised March 2. Indianapolis and Marion county candidates will be trained at Ft. Benjamin Harrison,

NEW STEEL PERFECTED By United Press LONDON, Feb. 27.—A new kind of steel perfected by a British firm for use in automobile manufacture is so hard that the sharpest file won’t mar itThe steel' is so serviceable that it is thought it will never wear out. A crankshaft built of this steel used in an automobile for 10,000 miles, under the worst abuse, 'and with but little lubrication, showed no signs of wear when examined.

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DEATH TAKES SAMUEL HILL Railway Magnate Succumbs After Relapse. By United Prrst PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 27.—Samuel Hill, 74-year-old railway magnate and good roads enthusiast, died here Thursday night after a! two weeks’ illness. Death occurred after an operation son intestinal disorders. His con-

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dition was ciltical for several flays, but an improvement was noted upon the arrival of his son, James Nathan Hill, from New York. He suffered a sudden relapse late Thursday and died within a few' hours. Although no relation to James J. Hill, he joined the “empire builder’s” family by marrying a daughter, Mary HUf. He was president of Hill’s Montana Central railroad. In Same House 87 Year* CONWAY, N. H.. Feb. 27.—Miss Sarah Hili recently observed her eighty-seventh birthday anniversary in the house where she was bom and where she has spent virtually every day of her life.